Bromley House Library 1816 to 1916
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Attendance at Committee Meetings (Appendix 1)

This extensive series of tables shows the attendances of individual members at each meeting of the Committee of the Library.
The names of committee members appear to the left. Sometimes for reasons of  economy of space only initials are used.
The dates of the meetings are shown across the top of each table. Early meetings were numbered, not always with total consistency, and these numbers are shown as appropriate
The number of meetings in each year is given in bold and underlined.
The attendances for each member are shown to the right of the table and the attendance at each meeting is given below.

Each table covers the year from April through to March the following year, and they are grouped by decade as shown below:

Years covered by the tables:
1816
to
1820
 1820
to
1830
 1830
to
1840		 1840
to
1850		 1850
to
1860		 1860
to
1870		 1870
to
1880		 1880
to
1890		 1890
to
1900		 1900
to
1910		 1910
to
1916


Committee Meetings Attendance Summary (Appendix 2)

In these tables the total annual attendances of Committee members are shown.
Overlap between tables is shown by the arrows (< and >) in the left-hand and right-hand columns of the data section of the tables.

Items from the Accounts 1896 to 1916 (Appendix 3)

The surviving account books covering the years 1896 through 1916 give a detailed picture of the day to day expenditure and income at the Library.
This has been summarised in these tables. For each year entries are shown by month for the various suppliers etc.

Debenture Shares (Appendix 4)

This table shows the holders of Bromley House debenture shares, their holdings and the payment history of those shares.

Building Shares (Appendix 5)

This table shows the holders of Bromley House building shares, their holdings and the payment history of those shares.

Dates of General Meetings (Appendix 6)

This table lists the dates, venues and chairmen of the Annual Meetings held each April.

Attendance at General Meetings (Appendix 7)

Despite the detailed records of attendance at Committee meetings the names of those present at general meetings do not survive until the twentieth century.
These attendances are shown in this table.

Attendance at Book Committee Meetings (Appendix 8)

There are records, which are probably far from complete, of attendances at meetings of the Library's Book Committee.
These attendances are shown in this table.

A Stocktaking Notebook from about 1896 (Appendix 9)

This small black-covered notebook contains the details of the 1896 stocktaking and included the titles of some of the books borrowed by subscribers.
It also contains some details of the gas aounts of tenants at Bromley House.


Abbreviations used:
Pr
President
IQ
 Inquorate meeting
Sun
 Sunday
Jan
 January
Jul
 July
Sc
 Honorary secretary
Sp Special meeting
Mon
 Monday
Feb
 February
Aug
 August
N
 New member of committee
Su
 Sub-committee meeting
Tue
 Tuesday
Mar
 March
Sep
 September
C
 Chairman
Ss
 Special sub-committee meeting
Wed
 Wednesday
Apr
 April
Oct
 October
P
 Present
Bu
 Buildings committee
Thu
 Thursday
May
 May
Nov
 November
L
 Late
Cat
 Catalogue committee
Fri
 Friday
Jun
 June
Dec
 December
A
 Apologies, or equivalent, given
* See note below table
Sat
 Saturday






Other abbreviations appearing under Notes
at the foot of tables.
C1    Must mean ‘13 September’; Inquorate
C2    Written as 1820 instead of 1821.
C3    No fair copy made.
C4    Recorded as ‘6 March 1830’.
C5    Recorded as ‘3 January 1830’.
C6    Ink: 7 August 1866; pencil: 6 August 1866.

D1    ‘Nothing done’.
D2    ‘No business’.		 N1    Error in numbering - 435, 436, 437 & 438 reused.
N2    Error in numbering - 511 used twice.
N3    Number 511 used twice.
N4    Numbering of meetings jumps back from 542 to 533.
N5    Numbering of meetings jumps back from 553 to 534.
N6    Numbering continues with 558.
N7    The last meeting to be numbered – 569 held on 4 May 1857.

V1    Meeting held at Mr Pearson’s.
V2    Meeting held at Carlton Street Committee Rooms.
V3    Meeting recorded as ‘held in Library’, which remained the venue thereafter.
        From 1820 the venue was Bromley House.







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24 August 2009


Neal Priestland